<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Rude</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mattrude.com">mythtv@mattrude.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>all your settings are stored in the database (except for<br>~/.mythtv/mysql.txt that tells myth how to access the database.) If you<br>are running the backend as a diffrent user then the fronend you will<br>need .mythtv/mysql.txt for both users.
<br><br>Since it looks like this is a new setup you can try to wipe the .mythtv<br>folder and rebuild it by running mythtv-setup for each user that uses myth<br><br>mv ~/.mythtv ~/mythtv-old<br>mythtv-setup<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br>Yes, it's a new setup so I don't care if it gets destroyed while I learn.<br><br>There was no mysql.txt in user mythtv's .mythtv directory; only a "channels" subdirectory, which was empty.<br><br>I deleted the .mythtv directory, and user mythtv ran the mythtv-setup, but it only recreated the same situation; a .mythtv directory with channels subdirectory.
<br><br>Then I copied mysql.txt from another user (where it had been created unintentionally during setup). However, it still doesn't find the database during running of mythtv-setup. It reports "mythtv: could not connect to socket, and mythtv: no such file or directory"
<br><br>I did a reboot, but same result.<br><br>Contents of /var/run/mysqld are these:<br>-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5 2006-12-07 14:54 mysqld.pid<br>srwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 0 2006-12-07 14:54 mysqld.sock<br><br>The
mysql.txt in mythtv user's .mythtv directory is this:<br>DBHostName=localhost<br>DBUserName=mythtv<br>DBPassword=mythtv<br>DBName=mythconverg<br>DBType=QMYSQL3<br><br>Any ideas? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
<br><br>John<br><br>